Quantitative methods of social research
Economic sociology
Sociology of work/labor market sociology/care work
Family sociology
Sociology of services
Spatial mobility in the household context

Natascha Nisic has been a professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2020, specializing in quantitative empirical methods as well as economic and labor market sociology. She received her doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2009. From 2008 to 2012, she worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. From 2012 to 2017, she held a junior professorship in Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg. In 2017, she held an interim professorship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), before taking up a professorship in Household Socioeconomics at the University of Paderborn, which she held until 2020.

Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic

Institute of Sociology
Working Group Sociology and Methods of Quantitative Social Research
Jakob-Welder-Weg 12
55128 Mainz
Room 03-442, Georg-Forster-Building

Phone: +49 6131 39 21596
Fax: +49 6131 39 26157

E-mail: natascha.nisic@uni-mainz.de
  1. Forschungskolloquium "Methoden und Sozialstruktur"
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic; Univ-Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte
  2. Kolloquium: Das Spektrum der Mainzer Soziologien
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marina Hennig; Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Boll; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sascha Dickel; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Hirschauer; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Kalthoff; Blanca Luque Capellas; Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic; Univ-Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte
  3. Kolloquium: Examenskolloquium Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten (AB Nisic)
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic
  4. Seminar: Einführung in die Regressionsanalyse
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic
  5. Seminar: Lohn für Liebe? Entlohnungsmechanismen in der Care-Arbeit.
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic
  6. Vorlesung: Einführung in die Wirtschaftssoziologie
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic
    Format: online

WiSe 2025/26

**Trübner Miriam and Natascha Nisic (2024): Sociocultural Barriers to Outsourcing Housework: Unraveling the Non-Use of Domestic Services. In: International Journal of Consumer Studies (forthcoming).
**Abraham, Martin, Nisic, Natascha, Trübner, Miriam, Walch, Hanna and Anja Wunder (2023): The Role of Generalized Trust and Control in the Employment of Domestic Help – an Experimental Case Study for Germany and the UK. In: Rationality and Society (forthcoming).
**Nisic, Natascha, Molitor, Friederike and Miriam Trübner (2023): “Rethinking Paid Domestic Services in Modern Societies – Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Quality and Professionalization on Service Demand.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(13/14): 106-128 (Open Access publication). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-11-2022-0290
**Nisic, Natascha and Miriam Trübner (2023): “Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of Housework Share among Contemporary Couples.” Journal of Family Issues (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231172285
**Trübner, Miriam, Natascha Nisic, Alicia Dunker and Stefanie Kley (2022): Sustainable food consumption – a question of social differentiation? In: Social World, 73(4): 680-712.
**Schunck, Reinhard, Nisic, Natascha (2020): “Caution with suggestions for the interpretation of regressions with interaction variables.” Cologne Journal of Sociology, 72:109-119. https://doi. org/10.1007/s11577-020-00659-2
**Nisic, Natascha and Stefanie Kley (2019): “Gender-specific effects of commuting and relocation on couples’ social life.” Demographic Research, 40:1047-1062. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.36
**Nisic, Natascha (2018): “Paid care work as a problem of trust – an economic-sociological view of the demand for domestic help and childcare.” Journal of Sociology, 47 (4): 219-239. https://doi. org/10.1515/zfsoz-2018-0115
** Nisic, Natascha (2017): “Smaller Differences in Bigger Cities – Assessing the Regional Dimension of the Gender Pay Gap.” European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcx037
** Nisic, Natascha and Silvia Melzer (2016) “Explaining Gender Inequality That Follows Couple Migration.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 78: 1063-1082. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12323
* Nisic, Natascha and Silvia Maja Melzer (2013): “Unexpected losers? Surprising winners? Appointment-related moves of East and West German couples”. Gender. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society, 2: 120-143.
* Nisic, Natascha and Sören Petermann(2013): “New City=New Friends? The Restructuring of Social Resources After Relocation.” Comparative Population Studies, 38:199-226.
* Rhein, Thomas, Parvati Trübswetter and Natascha Nisic (2013): “Is Occupational Mobility in Germany hampered by the dual vocational system? The results of a British-German comparison.” Schmollers Jahrbuch – Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 144(2): 203-214.
Kley, Stefanie, Natascha Nisic and Johannes Huinink (2013): “AG Räumliche Mobilität in der Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie”, Sociology,42(1), 2013: 93-94
** Abraham, Martin and Natascha Nisic (2012): “A simple mobility game with incomplete information for couples’ migration decisions”. Rationality & Society, 24: 168-197.https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463112440684
** Nisic, Natascha (2010): “Mitgegangen – mitgefangen? The consequences of household moves for the income situation of women in partnerships”. Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology 62(3): 515-549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-010-0110-5
* Nisic, Natascha (2009): “Labor Market Outcomes of Spatially Mobile Coupled Women: Why is the Locational Context Important?” Schmollers Jahrbuch – Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 139(2): 203-215.
* Abraham, Martin and Natascha Nisic (2008): “Regional attachment, spatial mobility and the job market – analyses for Switzerland and Germany”. Swiss Journal of Sociology 33(1): 69-87.
Nisic, Natascha and Molitor, Friederike (2022) : The demand for household-related services in the context of state support services: An overview of determinants, models of state grants and consequences for households and service providers*, WSI Study, No. 31, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI), Düsseldorf. https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/266618/1/1824505647.pdf
Nisic, Natascha & Abraham, Martin (2022): Family and spatial mobility. In: Arránz Becker, O., Hank, K., Steinbach, A. (eds) Handbook of Family Sociology. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35215-8_29-1
Gross, Christiane, Jungbauer-Gans Monika and Natascha Nisic (2017): Co-Authorship and Career Chances in Science. In: Jann, B. & Przepiorka, W. Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation. De Gruyter: Oldenburg
Diener/Götz/ Schreyer/Stephan/Lenhart/Nisic/Stöhr (2015): Returning to work after a family-related break. Findings of the evaluation of the second funding period of the ESF program “Perspektive Wiedereinstieg” of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens and Women. IAB Research Report 7/2015
Nisic, Natascha and Martin Abraham (2014): “Family and mobility”. In: Paul B. Hill and Johannes Kopp (eds.): Handbuch der Familiensoziologie, Springer VS.
Kriwy, Peter and Natascha Nisic (2012): “Health as a resource”. In: Knecht Alban, Franz-Christian Schubert (eds.): Resources in the welfare state and in social work. A handbook. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Nisic, Natascha and Parvati Trübswetter (2012): “Lohnentwicklung 1994-2008. Berufswechsler in Deutschland und Großbritannien”. IAB Brief Report 1/2012.
Nisic, Natascha (2011): “Determinants and Consequences of Job-related Spatial Mobility in the Context of Partnership and Household”. Doctoral dissertation. Electronic publication at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Nuremberg-Erlangen.
Nisic, Natascha and Parvati Trübswetter (2011): “Lohnentwicklung von Berufswechslern in Deutschland und Großbritannien” In: IAB-Forum No. 1
Nisic, Natascha and Katrin Auspurg (2008): “Factorial survey and classic population survey in comparison – validity, limits and possibilities of both approaches”. In: Kriwy, Peter and Christiane Gross (eds.) Klein aber fein! Quantitative empirical social research with small case numbers, pp. 211-246. Wiesbaden: VS Verl.
Heiko Rüger and Natascha Nisic: Commuting for work, yes or no? FAZ, 5.7.2023 https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/demographischer-wandel-das-mobilitaetsdilemma-19009695.html